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Last Thursday saw the launch of the strategic plan of the Chamber of Arts Heritage & Culture. The event took place in the House of Lords in Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin 2. The Chamber was established in April 2013 and is based on the established Chamber of Commerce movement but dedicated to the…
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Last night (Thursday June 5th) I went along to the opening of an exhibition in Dublin 2. I was not prepared for the scale and visual impact of the works. The first thing you see as you walk into the hexagonal space is an enormous visual realisation of James Joyce’s famous novel ‘Ulysses’. This took…
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‘Drawing Day’ is on this Saturday, May 17th from 11am-4pm in the National Gallery of Ireland as well as 54 other venues across Ireland. ‘Drawing Day’ was initiated by the National Gallery of Ireland in 2004 with the aim to encourage people to draw in their museums. It involves 54 arts centres, museums, libraries and…
An exhibition of work by West Cork based artist Anne Marie McInerney opened last week in the 2020 Gallery on the North Mall in Cork. The exhibition features chalk pastels of seascapes from the West of Ireland as well as some feline portraits. The exhibition continues until 10th May.
I recently visited Dun Laoghaire artist Oisin Roche in his studio. He had just opened an exhibition of fine art in Oliveto at the Kingston hotel. Since graduating from the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design (now IADT) he has been painting professionally for over 20 years. He specialises in portraiture, streetscapes and still…